Monday, November 16, 2015

The HHFF is an Erector Set for adults. It can be endlessly configured to meet your direct drive needs. The systems uses standard 15mm traded rods and standard D-Rod. You can get the D-Rod from Servocity plus a lot of other cool stuff. The mounting plate will attach to either side of the gear box allow you to orient the drive shaft in any direction. We offer two different size swing-away arms and many different size drive wheels, with which you can gear up or down.

Special thanks to my brother Hayden and his band Skirts for the music.

I have just finished a sphere with two triggers which is for the Cameo cable. This LANC cable lets you stop/start the camera and trigger F4 in Canon, Sony and JVC. With the F4 function you can trigger any assignable menu item you desire, most will go for the digital loop.Thesphere it self is larger than the average sphere we produce, the 2T Spherecome in at 2 5/8" in diameter roughly the size of a tennis ball where our normal sphere measures 2 3/8" close to the diameter of a pool ball. This sphere will ship with a Arri Style rosette the one in the photos is stainless steel I am waiting on a order of my normal black aluminum rosettes. The spheres can ship with either, your choice.I addition I would like to reintroduce the Handheld Follow Focus a rig designed to allow your hand to be where it wants to be and the drive gear to be where it needs to be. This is the long arm on the rig, I also have short arm but since I am using the dog bones I needed to span a lot of distance.

I am going to start shipping the HHFF in limited numbers if you interested let me know, ergocine@gmail.com. The price for these early HHFF's will be in the $500 range depending on how it is configured.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Found this on the SONY site while I was exploring the durability issue that the FS7 grip is having in the field. JPNola is using the two 2 Sphere Grip, our Triggered Grips also have the ability to on/off the SONY FS7.

I realize that isn't the solution you were looking for and it doesn't address the shoddy build of the control grip. But it is a solution that could save you a lot of headache, bring many advantages, and even improve your shooting.

About the only thing that the control grip provides that cannot be accomplished without the grip is simultaneous focus and iris riding. I found that it was rare that I needed to do both at once since the iris change is stepped and undesirable for in-shot exposure adjustment. Besides, being that the arm / grip is such a pain in the rear and creates so many problems, giving up simultaneous focus / exposure change was a trade-off I was willing to make.

The happy bonuses off ditching the arm are :

* camera placement is no longer limited by the arm. I can perform shots where the camera lens just barely clears an object. I can perform shots where the camera body is on the ground or on the hood of a car. No arm sticking out from the bottom of the camera to impede those camera placements.

* I can place the upright on a flat surface when not in use. No need for a second arm. No more having to lay the camera on its side.

* no more problems when mounting to a tripod. No having to temporarily reposition or remove the arm.

* no more concern over tearing up the cable for the control grip. Less cabling on the camera overall and that makes for less of a "franken-camera" / "C300" look. The camera is more "clean" without the arm and cabling to the grip.

* going without the arm shed weight. Weight that wasn't helping to stabilize camera shots. Weight that wasn't positioned aft of my shoulder- the only place where the Fs7 needs for additional weight.

* no more having to reposition or remove the arm in order to put the camera in its camera bag.

* no more one hand up, other hand down shooting position. Both hands are now at the same height, just like shooting with a traditional broadcast tv camera or motion picture camera. Having both hands at lens height makes you feel more part of the camera, more connected to the lens and thus to the shot.

Quit the grip and you will likely feel better for it. It was a bad habit to begin with. :smileylol:

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Blade V 2.0, includes ergocine Blade V2.0 with cheese plate, and a leather pad which will attach to the bottom of the unit with Velcro. Designed to accommodate the weight of a Cine size zoom lenses or longer cameras such as the F5/F55.

There is a .20" grove cut down the center of the plate which allows you to slide the camera into a perfectly balanced position. Attach any quick release plate or dovetail to the cheese plate which you can access from above or underneath.

Underneath in the front of the Blade there is an area to securely mount a Sachtler standard quick release plate.

We are also offering a low profile leather pad constructed with high density cushioning foam. The pad is made of layered cotton batting covered in suede leather and backed with Velcro. The pad will attach to the bottom of the unit with Velcro stapled into the shoulder cut out.

Front and back of the unit have mounting points for 15 mm rod brackets they will also have 15 mm holes sunk into the body of the blade. Once the rods are countersunk into the wooden mount a very rigid connection is made with the rods. One option is to permanently epoxy threaded female rods into the Blade V 2.0, flush to surface or protruding. Email me for a quote - ergocine@gmail.com.

Triggered grip package in Black Walnut come with your choice of free cable. Cables are 21" long with exception of the F55/F5 which is 30". Right angle Hirose connectors are used unless specified. Grips come with an all natural unbleached Duck Cloth Bag which protects and buffs your ergocine wooden grip and sphere.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Since the wood was from a small tree was very difficult to get a piece large enough to mill a handle free from cracks from the drying process. But we did succeed in getting one, read the blog post for the setup and watch this really cool little time lapse video of the grip being made. 3 1/2 hours condensed down to around 45 seconds. I would love to do this for someone else so feel free to contact me if you have some special piece of wood that you want made into a handle.